Imagination is a self bounding, self limiting system. Your own imagination is limited by what you think is real, or possible, as well as being able to imagine what another has imagined. In the imaginative world there is no distinction between the metaphorical and the literal. Nearly all scien...
Turns out, around 60 percent of them identified as either atheist or agnostic. That's more than 10 times the proportion you'd find in a random slice of Americana, but lower than you might expect, given that highly publicized surveys had previously pegged the percentage of atheists among top...
Generally an adult fills in the questionnaire and may mark young and adolescent children as having a religious belief without their input. The largest percentage of people who hold no religious view are in the adolescence to young adulthood range, which may be as high as 50%. Many children ha...
Galston proposed an experiment within which “a half-dozen states from parts of the country with different civic traditions should experiment with the practice, and observers—journalists, social scientists, citizens’ groups and elected officials—would monitor the results.” ...